Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
The Organization of American States (OAS) and Georgetown University agreed today to continue working together to restructure and strengthen the Political Database of the Americas (PDBA), a joint Internet-based project that provides political information, reference materials, comparative studies and statistical data of the 35 OAS member states.*
“This database is a critical tool that will help to continue to improve the quality of politics for practitioners and researchers all over the Americas and the Caribbean,” Biehl said.
Valenzuela, recalling the work carried out thus far, said that the project has contributed “important initiatives to the entire process of reflection on democratic consolidation and transitions towards democracy in Latin America.”
The Political Database of the Americas was established in 1995 as a result of the first Summit of the Americas, when the leaders of the hemisphere called for greater exchange of information and experiences among democratic institutions.
Today’s agreement, among other things, seeks to modernize and improve the Website; to substantially increase its coverage; to create new cooperation among other institutions and bodies of the inter-American system; and to develop programs which would create a permanent financing base.
The United States Government has been the major contributor to the project with over $500,000 donated to date. Representing the U.S. Mission to the OAS, Wendy Sneff said, “This Database can be an important instrument not only for researchers and academics but for everyone who wants to learn more about how democracy works.”
The information tool is organized into eight sections: Constitutions and Constitutional Studies; Executive Institutions; Legislative Institutions; Judicial Institutions; Electoral Systems and Electoral Data; Decentralization and Local Governance; and Civil Society.
The Political Database of the Americas can be found at: www.ddpa.oas.org/pdba
* By resolution of the Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (1962) the current Government of Cuba is excluded from participation in the OAS.
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